No matter what the size is of your outdoor garden, orchard, or farm, proper fertilization is essential in order to ensure that your plants and crops flourish. You must choose a fertilizer that contains nutrients that your plants need. Many people are now using a subsurface injection fertilizer system due to the benefits that plants derive from this system.
Fertilizer Delivered Directly To Plant Roots
When you choose to use a subsurface injection fertilizer, the fertilizer is delivered directly to the roots of plants. You don't have that complete assurance when you choose to use surface fertilizer. There is the potential for some plants to miss getting appropriate amounts of fertilizer to thrive during the process of fertilizer surface treatment.
Less Soil Erosion With Subsurface Application
Heavy rainfall causes soil erosion. If you use surface fertilization, the applied fertilization will get washed away. Subsurface fertilization, on the other hand, lessens soil erosion because this method injects nutrients from under the ground.
No Wasting Of Subsurface Fertilizer
Because subsurface fertilization application is utilized and absorbed by plant roots, none of the fertilizer will be resting on the surface during the growing season. Plants cannot efficiently use surface fertilization when some of it is stuck on top of the soil. So when you turn over the soil at the end of the growing season, weeds cunningly use leftover and unused surface fertilizer to their benefit for weed growth during the forthcoming spring and fall seasons. Obviously, there is a total waste of surface fertilizer in this case, because the plants were unable to access it for use.
The Runoff Effect
There is a runoff problem when you apply surface fertilizer treatment. If your land is sloped, a collection of surface fertilizer heads for one end when rain falls. In the event a heavy storm occurs, levels of fertilizer collect and rise in nearby bodies of water such as streams and ponds. This activity threatens the fragile ecosystem within these bodies of water. In this scenario, subsurface injection fertilizer is a more stationary treatment because it produces less runoff due to its injection at root level.
Setting Up Your Subsurface Injection System
When you decide to use subsurface injection fertilizer, hire a professional to set up this system for you. That professional will install tubes under the ground at the root level of everything you have planted. The tubes will funnel nutrients and water directly to plant roots. The system can be used for irrigation when not in use for subsurface injection activity. Another good thing about this system is that it can be fitted with stems that carry specific health requirements for plants that have different nutrient needs.
For more information, contact a subsurface injection fertilizer system service.
